| word | collective |
|---|---|
| definition | adjective Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people. It was a collective decision. The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief. They collectively decided to recognize the changed situation. The Cabinet is collectively responsible for policy. A collective amount of something is the total obtained by adding together the amounts that each person or thing in a group has. Their collective volume wasn't very large. In 1968 the states collectively spent $2 billion on it. The collective term for two or more types of thing is a general word or expression which refers to all of them. Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences. ...other sorts of cells (known collectively as white corpuscles). noun A collective is a business or farm which is run, and often owned, by a group of people who take an equal share of any profits . He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective. |
| inflections | collectivescollectivelycollectivelycollectively |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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